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Where the light comes from – Clementine SkorpilPhilippine should get married, that’s what her father and vom Seppel’s father agreed after Sunday mass. But Seppel is a bad boy, so she runs away – not easy for a girl in the 18th century. The way from her village to Vienna is long. She disguises herself as a boy, is picked up by a Jesuit priest, and goes to high school. Studied medicine in Rome and cartography in Coimbra. But again and again she threatens to fly. She has to go far away, with burning questions in her luggage: Who is she really? Sisi – the dark promise – Elena HellWhen the young, impetuous Sisi meets Franz Joseph I of Austria in Bad Ischl, this radiant and mysteriously unfathomable man, it is to make them happen. Although he is promised to her sister, she cannot escape the attraction of the young emperor and fights for his heart against the opposition of her family. With this love her future shines brilliantly bright. But is the daring Sisi strong enough for the dark side of this promise of love?Stalingrad – Wassili GrossmanApril 1942, the German-Soviet war has been raging for a year, but in the house of the Shaposhnikov family one cannot believe that that the German troops could advance as far as Stalingrad. But then the Red Army sets up camp there, and the seemingly distant threat suddenly becomes a cruel reality. The numerous members of the Shaposhnikov family have to deal with the everyday life of the war. After discovering “Life and Destiny”, the first part of the work, which was conceived as a dilogy, can finally be discovered. The waltz doesn’t care – Henry Kreisel, Sebastian RahoMiddle of the 1930s: Jakob Grossmann doesn’t consider himself an extraordinary man. He is a bit plump, a bit older and is a simple factory worker in Toronto. His big dream is to see his family in Vienna for the last time. Jakob was born into a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia in the middle of the 19th century. While his family fled violence and war to Vienna, he tried his luck in Canada. Jakob Grossmann is not a rich man, but who knows – in distant Vienna? Jakob, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to know that a civil war was raging in Austria not long ago and that there is now a new order. If you would ask me again today – Mary Beth KeaneWhen the Gleesons and the Stanhopes move into the same neighborhood, the course seems set for a friendly one Put together, the two fathers are also colleagues in the New York police. Feeling a little lonely in her new neighborhood, Lena Gleeson tries to befriend Anne Stanhope. Lena’s youngest daughter Kate and Anne’s only son Peter have been inseparable from the start. But their budding love is put to a severe test when a tragedy tears both families apart for a long time.Between the times – Georg MarkusThe past is in almost no other country as present as in Austria – not least thanks to Georg Markus, the always new and unusual , bringing both dramatic and curious stories to light. He unearthed the will of Emperor Franz Joseph and published for the first time the correspondence of Helmut Qualtinger’s first wife, who revealed exciting details from the life of the ingenious cabaret artist. In his latest litter, Georg Markus unites the typically Austrian with themes and people who moved the world – between the times as well as today.My year in the mountains – Paolo CognettiPaolo Cognetti needs a break from the hectic life in Milan and rents a hut in the Bergen – not far from where he spent his summers as a child. Life at 2000 meters brings back the simple things: chopping wood, making a fire, planting a garden. Finally he has time to read, talks to the animals, hears strange noises in the night. For weeks he doesn’t meet a soul – until a figure emerges from the fog.All the night above us – Gerhard JägerThe chronicle of a night, the chronicle of a life. A captivating novel about guilt and loss, escape and home, love and its transience. A soldier alone on the watchtower guarding a border. His thoughts keep wandering back in time, back to a life full of love and happiness that suddenly took a turn and left him broken. The night is long, there is despair and turmoil and a face on the other side of the fence… Does the border fence hold, do the inner levees hold?The life of wild bees – Thomas D. SeeleyEven in our forests wild honey bee colonies live and survive – independently from the care of a beekeeper. How can that be? For this book, Seeley examined the nest architecture of wild honey bees, their feeding grounds, the mating system and their resistance to diseases and shows the differences to managed bee colonies. How can beekeepers, beekeepers and insect lovers use this growing knowledge about wild honey bees? And how can the big gaps in the lives of wild and managed honey bees be bridged? The death doctor – Rene AnourVienna, 1908. When a dead homeless person is admitted to the medical examiner’s office, nobody gives him a second look – nobody except the young doctor Fanny Goldmann. She notices inconsistencies, but none of her male colleagues want to listen to her. Therefore, she secretly autopsies the corpse at night. A dangerous decision, because she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy involving a charismatic thief and Empress Sissi’s missing diamond stars. Her investigation leads Fanny from the glamorous salons and magnificent palaces of the upper class to the seedy dive bars and brothels of Vienna’s underworld.KERR Metropolis – Philip KerrBerlin, 1928. The young policeman Bernie Gunther is hired by the homicide squad. In four weeks, four prostitutes have been massacred in the same neighborhood. Gunther barely has time to familiarize himself with his first case when the next body is found – another woman, beaten to death and scalped. While these murders tend to leave the populace indifferent, the father of the latest victim is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge on the killer. Then a second series of murders begins – of disabled war veterans begging in the streets.The Man from the Shadows (The Rekke Vargas Series) – David LagercrantzA youth soccer referee is found dead. Suspicion immediately falls on an overly committed father, but there is no evidence. The new police chief then brings two outsiders into the team: the young police officer Micaela Vargas, who comes from the same problem area as the suspect, and the psychologist Hans Rekke, a brilliant observer and specialist in interrogation techniques. Rekke soon follows a completely different trail and not only puzzles Vargas. But only if both pull together do they have a chance against overpowering opponents. A cattle for Gaddafi – Günther Thömmes The oil price shock in 1973 changes the political world situation. In order to secure oil supplies for Austria, the government, under Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, is breaking new ground. In exchange for live cattle and whiskey, the Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi guarantees them a supply of oil. Business was good until the early 1980s when a male body was recovered from the Danube Canal – with his hands chopped off and his tongue cut out. 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